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Article #2577Re: C coding problem
From: Peter Davie
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 23:49
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 23:49
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In article: <4io1io$no4@solutions.solon.com> schwarz@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Konrad Schwarz) writes:
>
> I recently wrote a loop that went like this:
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> while (p < end_p)
> ++*p++;
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> Maybe some will find it a counter-example; I think it's good
> code that embodies the way C is designed to work. Arrays are
> second rate objects in C. Use pointers.
>
> Konrad Schwarz
>
It seems to me that there are three types of programmers:
1. Bad ones.
2. Good ones.
3. Very good ones.
I would place you in category two.
My definition of a very good programmer would be someone who writes good code that even bad programmers can understand.
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~ Cheers, Pete.
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